Second Sight

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It only takes one spark

Its the biggest case of her career and Eliza Carmody is on the wrong side. She is defending a large corporation that people believe was responsible for the devastating bushfire that nearly destroyed her hometown. When she returns to Kinsale, a place she thought shed left forever, Eliza witnesses a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems happy to ignore.

When police discover human bones at The Castle, a historic homestead, Eliza becomes convinced that the answer lies in the events on a New Years Eve years ago, the night her friend Grace disappeared forever.

With the town still reeling from the fires aftermath, powerful local families are determined to protect young men from the consequences of their actions. Eliza begins to suspect that no one even the most trustworthy is telling the truth.

Author Bio

Aoife Clifford is the author ofAll These Perfect Strangers,which was long-listed for both the Australian Industry General Fiction Book of the Year and the Voss Literary Prize, Second Sight, aPublishers Weekly(starred review), PW Pick for Book of the Week and was Highly Commended at the Davitt Awards, and When We Fall,which was shortlisted for the Davitt Awards and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. Aoifes short stories have been published in Australia, United Kingdom and the United States, winning premier prizes such as the Scarlet Stiletto and the S.D. Harvey Ned Kelly Award.